Chapter 2.
Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Moab, and for four,
I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because he burned the bones of
the king of Edom into lime.
But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of
Kerioth.
And Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the
trumpet.
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the
princes thereof with him, saith the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Judah, and for four,
I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because they have despised the
law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them
to err, after the which their fathers have walked.
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of
Jerusalem.
Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Israel, and for four,
I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because they sold the righteous
for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes, that pant after the dust of the
earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek.
And a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name.
And they lay themselves down upon clothes, laid to pledge by every altar,
and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.
Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the
cedars, and he was strong as the oaks.
Yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the
wilderness to possess the land of the Amorite.
And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites.
Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel?
Saith the Lord.
But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink, and commended the prophet, saying,
Prophesy not.
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of
sheaves.
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen
his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself.
Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow, and he that is swift of foot shall
not deliver himself.
Neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day,
saith the Lord.